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• I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the… — Christopher Marlowe
• I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger… — Joseph Conrad
• Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles! — Christopher Marlowe
• I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I am not omniscient, but I know a lot. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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